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Volume 30, Number 11—November 2024
Research

SARS-CoV-2 Infection in School Settings, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, 2021–2022

Yoshihiro Takayama, Yusuke Shimakawa, Ryota Matsuyama, Gerardo Chowell, Ryosuke Omori, Tetsuharu Nagamoto, Taro Yamamoto, and Kenji MizumotoComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Okinawa Chubu Hospital, Uruma, Japan (Y. Takayama); Okinawa Prefecture Epidemiological Statistics and Analysis Committee, Naha-shi, Japan (Y. Takayama, Y. Shimakawa, R. Matusuyama, R. Omori, T. Nagamoto, K. Mizumoto); Institute of Tropical Medicine Department of International Health and Medical Anthropology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan (Y. Takayama, T. Yamamoto); Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France (Y. Shimakawa); Pasteur International Unit at Kumamoto University/National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (Y. Shimakawa); Rakuno Gakuen Univerisity, Ebetsu, Japan (R. Matsuyama); Georgia State University School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (G. Chowell); International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (R. Omori); Kyoto University Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto, Japan (K. Mizumoto)

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Figure 1

Overview of the SARS-CoV-2 PCR project conducted in school settings, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, 2021–2022. The school’s PCR Project protocol begins when the Prefectural COVID-19 Task Force is notified of a SARS-CoV-2 infection in a student. The prefectural school PCR support team will arrange for testing, with students providing saliva samples through self-collection of saliva. School officials receive test containers from the education office and transport the specimens to the testing laboratories. Contacts are generally all children or students in the class with a positive case, and close contacts are those within 1 meter from the index case-patient for >15 minutes without appropriate infection control measures.

Figure 1. Overview of the SARS-CoV-2 PCR project conducted in school settings, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, 2021–2022. The school’s PCR Project protocol begins when the Prefectural COVID-19 Task Force is notified of a SARS-CoV-2 infection in a student. The prefectural school PCR support team will arrange for testing, with students providing saliva samples through self-collection of saliva. School officials receive test containers from the education office and transport the specimens to the testing laboratories. Contacts are generally all children or students in the class with a positive case, and close contacts are those within 1 meter from the index case-patient for >15 minutes without appropriate infection control measures.

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